street design

i tried to incorporate the style of my street that im creating, into photos that i took of streets close to me.

the first one was an ordinary picture of coble stone but i tried to add in the checked affect

and make the floor look more fun by adding in un ordinary colours. im really pleased with the way the first one turned out. as in my opinion it look pretty realistic. but there are still areas were there could be improvement for example i could have added an extra layer on top with additional shading on it to make it blend in more. or i could have somehow made it look more dirty as it is seems to be too clean. or i could have tried something to make the edges of the black squares less bold and more like paint   

the second picture im not fond of. i tried to make it more strange/different by adding stripes onto it but they look to unnatural. the colours are also to ligh. as what i whanted with my streat is to be dark and creepy yet fun looking. it hink if i added an aditional layer on top with black then i might have been able to darken it.

even though i added a noise layer top get it to look like it was a gravely stone it. doesnt look realistic. also whilst trying to change the colour of the door. it made it look even worse as the door was origonaly black and adding on an overlayy layer just made it look tacky. i think if i were to do this again i would have made the red and white darker and i would have also removed the door and replaced it with a diferent one that would be more easy to colour and also more interesting. for example maby and arched door would have looked more interesting rather then a square door

after making the photos i tried to draw over the top of an existing image i had gotten of a street. and change certain aspects of it into the style of my street. i changed some of the building shapes and also aded in extra bits like the curtain, the metal poll with lights hanging of of it and the fence that i curled.

this helped as it gave me a better idea of levels. for example instaid of keeping everything one same level i could make certain bit higher then others.